The B-C-Mess

I was down in Cincinnati last night for a birthday celebration, when my brother-in-law and I flipped on the T.V. and watched the end of the Cowboys-Giants game, which had a great finish. After, there was an NFL highlights show (the funniest quote of the show was when the main "mouth" of the show, who I didn't recognize, said to Terry Bradshow, who was bundled up way more than he had to be and was wearing a goofy hat, "If you're wrong, I want to see you cut through a bar of Irish Spring soap", because he looked kind of like a leprechaun.), but then the BCS selection show came on, and I told my brother-in-law that Florida was going to be the #2, and sure enough, they were.

Another year reminds us that Division 1 College Football desperately needs a playoff system. Even if just the top 8 teams had a playoff, it would be much better than the mess we find ourselves in every year. I personally feel like even the college football poll system is wrong - if I was a college football A.D., I would schedule all of my tough games at the beginning of the year, because everyone knows that if you lose early, you have a better chance of staying close to the top than if you lose late. (Florida loses to Auburn early, Michigan loses to Ohio State by 3 at Ohio State late. Florida leapfrogs over Michigan for the #2 spot) And, if a win in a conference championship game (like Florida over Arkansas) counts towards the polls, then shouldn't everyone have a conference championship? Is it really fair that Michigan, who didn't have any games after the Ohio State game, does nothing to drop in the polls (because they didn't play anymore) ends up dropping because Florida did have a conference championship game?

It's a mess, folks. Every other division in college football has a playoff. Why can't the best division do the same? The above graphic is Terry Bowden's take on what an eight team playoff would look like this year. Looks pretty good to me.